Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 014014305X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140143058
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About This Item
Softcover .
🔴 Condition - Good🔴
Australian buyers can combine up to 5Kg of Books for the same postage charge.
🟢 This Book weighs 240 Grams.
🔴 Condition - Good🔴
Australian buyers can combine up to 5Kg of Books for the same postage charge.
🟢 This Book weighs 240 Grams.
Synopsis
The Mother Tongue is a book by Bill Bryson which wittily compiles the history and origins of the English language and the language's various quirks. It is subtitled English And How It Got That Way. The book discusses the Indo-European origins of English, the growing status of English as a global language, the complex etymology of English words, the dialects of English, spelling reform, prescriptive grammar, and more minor topics including swearing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pearls Books n Music (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33875
- Title
- Mother Tongue
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014014305X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140143058
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- September 26, 1991
- Keywords
- fiction,humour,nature, environment,travel, Foreign
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